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. . . At a legal town meeting March 31st 1777 Edward Collins Esqr was chosen moderator of said meeting at the same meeting voted the town will [?] the authority and select men in punishing all breaches of Law respecting the prices that are set by the assembly and voted to choose a committee to take care of the families of those that shall engage in the service of the war in their absence and choose Peter Raynolds, Saml Warriner, Capt. Pease, Selah Terry, Joseph Gleason, and Isaac Pease a committee for that purpose then the meeting adjourned to the 7th day of April at three of the clock afternoon 

Then met and voted to raise forty dollars to be paid out of the town treasurer to each able bodied man that shall enlist into the Continental army by the first day of May next and the same sum to those already enlisted to the number of forty seven men and that the treasurer borrow what money shall be wanted for that purpose on the Credit of the town and that the select men make a rate on the list of 1776 directly after the first day of May next to pay the same  

At the same meeting voted that Joseph Knight, Capt. Perkins, and Ensign Eliphalet Terry be a committee to prefer a memorial to the assembly in May next pray that the negros in this state be released from their slavery and bondage  

At a legal town meeting Sep 24th 1777 moderator Isaac Ribbe at the same meeting voted to choose a committee to purchase clothing for the soldiers and that they borrow money if need be for that purpose the committee chosen were Capt Pease, John Raynolds, and Moses Allen at the same meeting voted that the committee formerly chosen to take care of the soldiers wives and families shall purchase provision and other things for them as cheap as they can and what they shall give more than the stated price they shall draw the money out of the town treasury . . .